Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-30
FASHIONS FANCIES.
sgAsoKABLR SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
LADY READERS.
seal-Plush wraps-Graceful street Ora
pery-silk and Satin Costumes
Fur Shapes.

seal-Plush wraps-Gracsful Street Ora
pery-silk and Satin Costumes
Fur Shapes.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NEW YORK, October 20, 1887.
As the weather begins to grow cold,
furs are in order for street wear. They
are not yet very frequently met with, as
velvet, plush, and even cloth, are fash
ionable for fall wear. Every woman
who has them is, however, beginning
to take them out of their carbonized
felt OF camphor packing, and they will
before long take their accustomed
prominence as outdoor wraps.
OF late years a great many OF our
most fashionable ladies have been ig-
noring fur garments in favor OF expen-
sive creations of plush and passemen-
terie or embroidery, which, while being
of nearly as much worth as the fur, are
certainly more attractive.
The carriage wraps now seen are ex-
ceptionally elegant. They are very
long, reaching to the ground, and the
materials used are the most costly OF
their kinds. Block pushes. in combi-
nation with plain, and in all the fash
ionable medium and dark. shades are
seen upon the persons of modlsh ladies.
Persian embroideries sometimes ap-
pear, and passementerie is often used
where the fabric is not sufficiently
elaborate in itself. Some of them are
bordered with fur and others with
feather trimmings to match in color the
material used.
Seal plush wraps are never worn I'M
less trimmed with fur. This rule was
instituted last year and is continued.
No plush approaching in color the seal
tints can be worn unless it is deeply
bordered and garnished with some va
riety of fur.
Real fur shapes vary as widely as
usual, and the number Of novelties
shown is not very great.
Fur-trimmed toques will be worn, and
they are exceedingly piquant and
pretty.
Two hundred and fifty dollars is
pretty good sum to pay for
nigbt-dress, is it not? That sum can
be expended for only one of the fine
silk, lace-trimmed, embroidered gar
ments IN which some of our fashionable
land wealthy ladies retire to rest.
They (thc night-robes) are certainly
very beautiful, but the amounts paid for
them are exorbitant.
An era has come when in many cases
the underwear exceeds in cOstliness the
dresses.
Sicilienne is one OF the most favored
fabrics of the season. 1t is to be used
for evening and all occasions of cere-
mony, like dinner-parties, afternoon
receptions, and the like. MORE is
another popular fabric, and .taiHc
franchise retains its place as the chief
of silk materials. Frlse goods are not
quite so much used as they were last
year, but they may acquire wider use
as the season advances.
A very graceful street dress OF heavy
da1k-brown woollen material is made
with a killed skirt, every fold of which
is faced with bronze passementerie,
from beneath the heavily creased, short,
round front drapery to the bottom.
The black draperies fall away on the
sides in long jdJOts. The basque is
made with a simulated vest OF the same
material, cross-barred with strips Of the
passem cnterie, and is bordered on the
sides with revers reaching from the
shoulders down. Collar and cuffs are
Of passementerie.
Many of the newest black silk and
satin costumes are trimmed with Jet
and-lace passementerie, which produces
q rich and elegant effect. For the mat
ter of that black silk dresses are always
elegant, if they fit well.
A black wrapmay be worn, as a black
bonnet may, with any kind of dress.
Remember this i'll buying winter man
tie or cloak, for if your dress be of one
color and your wrap of a different tint
the effect is bad and against the present
tendency of the fashions. The great
point to be aimed at nowadays is uni
formity. OF course if your wrap is long
enough to cover your dress you are all
right
Plush or velvet curtains to be placed
over the lace ones are not made with
lambrequins any more. They run with
rings upon polished rods overhead.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don JVorid says of typical French
dude SIN his shirt front he wore two
studs, the single stud or 'nombril >
having had its day his coat collar and
lnpels were of silk the tails OF his coat
were very short his waistcoat button
ed rather high his cravat was I'M
adorned by diamond or pearl-headed
pin; his gloves were putty-colored and
without black stitching the brlm OF his
hat was flat, and his cane was gold
headed and richly embossed. lie car
riod cane in order to keep his hands
out Of bis rockets, which is pronounced
tc be a reprehensible English fashion
and the knob of his cane was large and
heavily embossed, in order that he
might not be tempted to suck it, fash
ion this season having prohibited this
favorite distraction Of the unoccupied
exquisite
Here is an attention to detail with
which cur own dudes cannot compete.